PoE 2 is actively damaging PCs and GGG is on Holiday without fixing it - Loading Screen PC Freeze

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luckdam#0321 wrote:

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Cainrith#2807 wrote:

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arsenicblithely#7141 wrote:

You should be embarrassed and frankly banned for posting such hyperbole. Nothing you described threatens anyone's hardware, you're just throwing a temper tantrum and fearmongering because the beta early access game has some flaws.

Incompleteness of shutdown process interrupts system operations, which can interrupt critical tasks leading to data corruption. Even with modern file systems, an abrupt shutdown may leave temporary files or critical system configurations in an inconsistent state, requiring repairs during the next boot.

In mechanical drives, a forced shutdown could interrupt the normal parking of the read/write head, potentially causing minor wear. While rare, repeated occurrences could increase the risk of a catastrophic "head crash", a severe mechanical failure in a HDDs that occurs when the read/write head, which hovers right above the spinning platters, comes into direct physical contact with the platter surface. Since the platters are coated with a thin magnetic material used to store data, any contact with the head can cause permanent physical damage and data loss.

For SSDs, which lack moving parts, and rely on firmware to manage data, if a forced shutdown interrupts critical internal operations (like garbage collection or wear leveling), it could result in data loss or even firmware corruption.

There is also electrostatic and capacitive effects. The key here is "Charge Imbalance". Capacitors in power circuitry store charge. A sudden shutdown might not allow for controlled discharge, which could affect components over time due to uneven stress cycles.

Yo ChatGPT tone it down. If your potato stops working because you push the button on your computer literally designed to restart it, you likely need a new potato.

NTFS may run into some issues with data actively being written during a hard restart, everything else will be completely fine. Ignore the techo babble of your nonsense genai.

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arsenicblithely#7141 wrote:

You should be embarrassed and frankly banned for posting such hyperbole. Nothing you described threatens anyone's hardware, you're just throwing a temper tantrum and fearmongering because the beta early access game has some flaws.